Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oat

2 senses of oat

Sense 1
oat -- (annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats'))
       => cereal, cereal grass -- (grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet)

Sense 2
oat -- (seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats'))
       => grain, food grain, cereal -- (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)